Materials:

Spring or some other elastic material…carefully
and accurately describe your spring/elastic. BE CREATIVE! Try finding an interesting material with elastic properties (tension or compression)

Ruler

Brass mass set

Ring stand

Draw diagram of your experimentaltup in the
box to the right and give it a title

Procedure:

Hang a 50g hook from your spring/elastic.If your “spring” is not taught yet (or not
yet on the verge of “stretching”), add some more masses until it reaches this
point.Record this starting mass in
“Trial 0” of the data table.Mark the
location of the bottom of the 50g hook with a piece of masking tape on the rod
of the ring stand (this is your starting position to use to find your
displacement).

Add additional mass to stretch the “spring”.Record the total mass and the displacement
in the data table.

Repeat step 2, increasing the mass each
time.You should end up with seven data
points.Be sure to add enough mass to
give the spring or elastic a good stretch (but don’t damage the spring/rubber
band).Make sure your data is” spread
out,” not clustered.

Materials:

Spring or some other elastic material…carefully
and accurately describe your spring/elastic. BE CREATIVE! Try finding an interesting material with elastic properties (tension or compression)

Ruler

Brass mass set

Ring stand

Draw diagram of your experimentaltup in the
box to the right and give it a title

Procedure:

Hang a 50g hook from your spring/elastic.If your “spring” is not taught yet (or not
yet on the verge of “stretching”), add some more masses until it reaches this
point.Record this starting mass in
“Trial 0” of the data table.Mark the
location of the bottom of the 50g hook with a piece of masking tape on the rod
of the ring stand (this is your starting position to use to find your
displacement).

Add additional mass to stretch the “spring”.Record the total mass and the displacement
in the data table.

Repeat step 2, increasing the mass each
time.You should end up with seven data
points.Be sure to add enough mass to
give the spring or elastic a good stretch (but don’t damage the spring/rubber
band).Make sure your data is” spread
out,” not clustered.